apple out with numbers that -- well, they're kind of middle ground. you have revenues, overall sales that were a little less than expected. slightly less. still around $10 billion worth. but you have earnings that were a little less -- i should say 43 dental, earnings that -- $43 billion and earnings -- bottom line the company is announcing a $50 billion share buyback. and it is going to significantly add to the buying of shares joust standing. the idea is to go ahead and buy back shares to presumably lift the stock price. right now it is not doing much for the stock price because in afterhours trading, barely budging, down around $403 a share. to give you a sense of the strength of the company overall says, it sold 37 million iphones verse 35 million a year ago. 19-1/2 million ipads versus 11 million a yearing a. the same up in as imacs a year ago, four million, roughly the sam number of ipods. didn't anyone blitzkrieg you with the numbers but palestine for -- but bottom line for apple, not a bad quarter, but it used to just way overwow, and that mig